I used two folding bikes: a german Birdy Touring (Riese & Müller) and a british Pashley TSR 30. :love:

04-03-09, 07:08 AM

madscot13

Quote:

Originally Posted by Monoborracho

Here's my ride most all the time. 1994 Trek 520, upgraded to 8 speed with XT/Mavic wheels, Nitto randonneur bars, and Brooks B67. This bike has a jillion miles on it, including centuries,three cross state tours, and several unsupported tours. It gets 3000 miles per year. Next year it may get 9 speeds, brifters, and a new factory paint job.

I have the same bike and it is pretty great. I always want to upgrade but in terms of frame I don't know what an upgrade would be (well i my dream world I do but not in reality). someday I will find some pictures of it. I want to get it repainted too but where are you thinking of doing that?

Here's my ride most all the time. 1994 Trek 520, upgraded to 8 speed with XT/Mavic wheels, Nitto randonneur bars, and Brooks B67. This bike has a jillion miles on it, including centuries,three cross state tours, and several unsupported tours. It gets 3000 miles per year. Next year it may get 9 speeds, brifters, and a new factory paint job.

Very nice, with all the details integrated. Don't see too mcuh silver fillet brazing -- expensive and hard to do right. Did you build the frame yourself?

04-10-09, 05:58 PM

ishy_bunny

Quote:

Originally Posted by Six jours

Very nice, with all the details integrated.

Thanks! However, the next randonnée bicycle I build (for myself or a customer, if they request it) will have as much of the electrical wiring routed internally as possible. There's always something for which to strive...

Although the price of silver is high compared to bronze, it's a small fraction of the cost of the other raw materials and assembly and finishing labor involved. Not to mention the cost of paint. Nevertheless, as you said, it's expensive and not many of my customers request it. However, it was a nice change from using bronze on tubing this thin (Columbus Ultra Foco - about 0.5mm at the thick ends of the top and down tubes) to build up large fillets (which I find very appealing).

Quote:

Originally Posted by Six jours

Did you build the frame yourself?

Yes, I built it myself (framebuilding is one of my vocations).

04-12-09, 09:18 PM

madscot13

Ishy Bunny that is a sweet bike. I am a TC native and I would like to build my own frame, but I don't know where to start. where did you learn?

04-13-09, 01:08 AM

unterhausen

Quote:

Originally Posted by ishy_bunny

Thanks! However, the next randonnée bicycle I build (for myself or a customer, if they request it) will have as much of the electrical wiring routed internally as possible. There's always something for which to strive...

What would you use to do that, brass tubing? Is there a way to get past the bottom bracket?

04-13-09, 03:25 AM

fenderbender

Quote:

Originally Posted by ishy_bunny

This is my randonnée bicycle, built last year and ridden through the season (2x 200km brevets, many 100km commutes). It was repainted a bright metallic blue this year:

Battery-powered Schmidt E6 headlight. The lead-acid battery weighs 907g (2lbs. - a little more than a full water bottle), but provides ten hours of run-time at full brightness.

What would you use to do that, brass tubing? Is there a way to get past the bottom bracket?

The bikes I have seen simply run the wiring through holes in the tubing -- usually through the lower tang of the lower head lug, and through the rear of the seat tube to the tail light -- and through the bottom bracket shell above the bottom bracket spindle. This is how I am doing it on the frame that I am almost done building. I will let you know if something goes wrong with it...

04-21-09, 09:36 PM

lonesomesteve

Quote:

Originally Posted by adam.truong

This is my baby. My one and only bike which forces me to do the OC- SD century with one gear. And I love every painful spin.

Soma Smoothie, the fork is a Enigma Etape Audax. Full Ultegra groupset, put it together myself, som build pics here

04-26-09, 11:24 AM

Beaker

Got redirected here by a post Machka made in road cycling, so thought I'd join the club. I rode the Primavera century on my 07 Roubaix comp last weekend. I've been doing some saddle searching but my Fizik Antares kept me fresh through to the last mile.

Details, for those who care:
Trek 720 touring frame, built in 1982, before they started putting cantilever studs on them.
Shimano Nexus-8 hub, twist shifter on flat handlebar (MTB bar) with drop bar ends, aero levers on the bar ends.
Sanyo dynamo hub, 3E lights.
Steel fenders from a 1940's Schwinn, but these will soon be replaced with new plastic ones.
The luggage rack is unsatisfactory; when I do the fenders, I'm going to put my old Jim Blackburn racks on it, the way it was back in '83.
Seat is a Fujita Professional, it's been on this bike since 1983.
I'm not going back to the original color (metallic vomit, I think) or derailleurs, though.

04-28-09, 05:52 AM

pkcain

1 Attachment(s)

Here is my ride. It's a 1999 GT Edge and although it looks like a TT bike it's not really. It's also not really a comfortable distance bike but whatever... soon to be replaced with a Waterford 2200.

It's almost all stock 105 stuff except the shifters are record. I'm working on their position so I haven't wrapped the bar yet. The saddle is also on trial... I usually use a Brooks Swift, in honey of course. As it sits it looks like a fashion show but with the Brooks it just looks cool.

It's done 6 or so metric centuries and 3 double centuries. The rectangular stickers on the seat tube are for the Vatternrunden, which is a 300km ride about the second largest lake in Sweden. It's the largest event of it's kind and sells out at 17,500 most every year. It's an excellent day in the saddle! Coming up again in mid June - can't wait.